Wearables: a perfect storm of technology trends. Will your smart umbrella be enough for this rough weather?

1. #FFDemoDay #SmartStorm
Wearables: a perfect storm of technology trends
Sylvain Carle
Wear It Smart Conference Montréal
October 2015

2. Will your smart umbrella be enough for this rough weather?
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3. 7 Mega Trends that made Smart Wearables Possible
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4. The PC
is a mere sum
of it’s parts
(disintegration)
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5. The Smart Phone
created the sensor ecosystem
(and economics)
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6. Network is assumed
obvious or desired
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7. Linux and
Open Source
paved the way
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8. Kickstarting is the new bootstrapping
(with market insights)
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9. It’s in you pocket
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10. Near is good enough
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11. The Gamer Generation
worldview and perspective
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12. Challenges for wearables
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• It’s all about integration (or re-integrating)
• Tech is not enough. Design wins. Easy trumps nice
• Hardware is hard. No shortcuts. Good is not great
• Real business models are of the 2nd order (data)

13. Connect all the “smarts”
(wear, home, car, phone, grid)
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14. Amazing potential.
Harder than you think.
Better than you thought.
Endless possibilities!
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15. #FFDemoDay #SmartStorm
Wearables: a perfect storm of technology trends
Sylvain Carle
Wear It Smart Conference Montréal
October 2015